i am from santa rosa. assault weapons, up one thing we should keep in mind is it accomplishes nothing. if i want to kill a bunch of people, it i can go down and get a semiautomatic rifle. it does not accomplish anything. it makes someone feel good, i guess, that they passed a bill. it accomplishes nothing. the second item i want to bring out, this whole idea of making the schools gun free zones. all that says to the criminals, come and shoot me. there is no concealed carry people here. i believe that lapierre was right. the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is having a good guy with a gun. one thing congressman thompson is familiar with is the armed security service that we have had a lot of our schools in california. a lot of the school districts already have armed people on site. the l.a. school district has a police department. that has worked out very well. the one at redding has worked very well. [applause] >> i am from petaluma. thank you for having this forum. i would like to enter into the nati